Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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2024 · Movie · 2h 30m · NR
The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 89% of the 2,500 2020s documentary movies in this catalog. It runs long at 2h 30m.
Synopsis
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes97%
Metacritic91/100
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
75 audience votes
Key crew
- Johan GrimonprezDirector
- Johan GrimonprezWriter
Cast
- Patrice LumumbaSelf (archive footage)
- Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
- Nikita KhrushchevSelf (archive footage)
- Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage)
- Andrée BlouinSelf (archive footage)
- Abbey LincolnSelf (archive footage)
- Max RoachSelf (archive footage)
- Malcolm XSelf (archive footage)
- Nina SimoneSelf (archive footage)
- John ColtraneSelf (archive footage)
- Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)
- Miriam MakebaSelf (archive footage)
Stills
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Themes
central intelligence agency (cia)war crimescold warcongocoup d'etatbelgiumfidel castrocolonisationtorturegenocideunited nationsu.s. embassy